transmissible

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The hepatitis B virus is highly transmissible and many people may not know they have it.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

This process could generate a new variant that possesses the worst features of both—a virus that is transmissible from person-to-person like the seasonal flu, and severe, like those two concerning cases of D1.1.

From Slate • Dec. 31, 2024

University of Central Florida researchers helmed a study that found Florida panthers are not particularly susceptible to a potentially transmissible disease that causes cognitive decline leading to death in their prey.

From Science Daily • Nov. 21, 2024

Health officials have analysed what could happen if the more dangerous and transmissible clade 1b variant of mpox spreads to the UK.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

The above mentioned control is transmissible by all means known in law, and is also resignable when just motives exist.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher